Monday, June 18, 2007

Week 3, Thing 5: Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug

Yahoo's Flickr eats up a lot of time. Who knew photo management could be so time-consuming and yet filled with such interestingness? Anyone with boxes of pictures still not in albums and zillions of digital pictures still not in organized files, I'm guessing. Be sure to visit and join the 365 Days of Library Pictures. The APIs (Application Programming Interface) are very useful and playful, too - badge makers, blog headers, calendars, CD cover makers, etc. The Flickr Trip Planner looks like a good way to organize trip photos. And Trippermap creates a flash map of your tagged trip pictures using Google Earth. Smugmug costs, but it has no ads and looks upscale. Google's Picasa will gather all of your photos from anywhere on your computer in short order. Then all you have to do is organize them into folders.

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